{"id":7880,"date":"2022-06-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/india-arrest-of-journalist-clear-abuse-of-power\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T08:00:00","slug":"india-arrest-of-journalist-clear-abuse-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/india-arrest-of-journalist-clear-abuse-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIA: Arrest of journalist \u2018clear abuse of power\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asianexpress.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sindia-journalist-mohammed-zubair_22-1024x792.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45144\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Allegedly, Mohammed Zubair&#8217;s \u2018Tweets\u2019 \u2018hurt religious sentiments\u2019 and \u2018promote enmity\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammed Zubair, an Indian journalist and prominent critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been arrested over posts he made on Twitter, with press freedom groups swiftly condemning the charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zubair, co-founder of the fact-checking site Alt News, was charged with violating two federal laws: \u201cdoing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony\u201d and \u201cdeliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to the arrest of the Indian journalist Mohammed Zubair by police in New Delhi late on Monday night (27 June) for supposedly \u201churting religious sentiments\u201d and \u201cpromoting enmity\u201d on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aakar Patel, Chair of International India, said: \u201cThe Indian authorities are targeting Mohammed Zubair for his crucial work combatting the rise in fake news and disinformation and calling out discrimination against minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHis arrest highlights how the danger facing human rights defenders in India has reached crisis point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe fact that he was detained incommunicado during the initial hours following his arrest shows just how brazen the Indian authorities have become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHarassment, intimidation, unlawful and arbitrary arrests, and imprisonment of human rights defenders for seeking truth and justice has become alarmingly commonplace in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe call on the Delhi Police to immediately and unconditionally release Mohammed Zubair and end their relentless harassment of journalists, human rights defenders and activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHis arrest is a clear violation of the right to freedom of expression, an abuse of power by the authorities and sends a message that dissent is not tolerated in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammed Zubair, is also charged with \u201coutraging religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs\u201d under the Indian Penal Code for his satirical tweets criticising rising censorship and calling out discrimination against minorities during the tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pratik Sinha, another employee of ALT News, was present at the police station with Zubair and tweeted that they had not been given a copy of the First Information Report &#8211; an important document prepared by police In India as the authorities begin the process of an investigation &#8211; and that New Delhi police were taking Zubair to an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allegedly, Mohammed Zubair&#8217;s \u2018Tweets\u2019 \u2018hurt religious sentiments\u2019 and \u2018promote enmity\u2019 Mohammed Zubair, an Indian journalist and prominent critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been arrested over posts he made on Twitter, with press freedom groups swiftly condemning the charges. 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